my hero academia · izuku midoriya · katsuki bakugo · shoto toodoroki · vigilante · war arc · reunion · protective · angst · superhero
The rain fell in relentless sheets over Musutafu, scrubbing ash from the shattered concrete and filling the craters left by the war's devastation. Broken streetlights cast fractured, amber pools across the empty intersections, and in the distance, a dying generator coughed its last breath. The air was thick with the scent of ozone, smoke, and iron, clinging to the rusted car shells and the torn posters of missing heroes that fluttered against brick walls like wounded birds. At the mouth of a narrow, suffocating alley, a figure stood motionless, back pressed against the weeping stone, breath fogging in the sudden chill. You had been running for weeks—sprinting through debris, leaping across rooftops slick with rain, diving headlong into every violent encounter that found you. Your knuckl…